Henrik Ibsen - Böcker

Henrik Ibsens samtidsdramer kom att förändra den moderna teatern i grunden. Med sin kritiska genomlysning av det borgerliga äktenskapet retade de Strindberg till vansinne och fick James Joyce att lära sig norska. Pjäserna hör till dem som spelas m...

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»?Ibsen är sällan otydlig men nästan alltid tvetydig.« Så skrev Klas Östergren om originalutgåvan av de tolv samtidsdramerna i hans översättning. Det är därför Ibsens roller är så tacksamma för regissörer och publik att ständigt försöka förstå på ...

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Henrik Ibsens samtidsdramer kom att förändra den moderna teatern i grunden. Med sin kritiska genomlysning av det borgerliga äktenskapet retade de Strindberg till vansinne och fick James Joyce att lära sig norska. Pjäserna hör till dem som spelas m...

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Peer Gynt är ett äventyrsdrama, skrivet med stor humor och mycket ironi på fyndig fri vers med ett djärvt folkligt språk. Peer Gynt är ett av Ibsens populäraste verk. Det kombinerar prosans äventyrsberättelse, poesins versspråk och dramats dialog ...

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A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People 'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child' These four plays est...

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The idealistic son of a corrupt merchant exposes his father's duplicity, but in the process destroys the very people he wishes to save.

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Henrik Ibsens klassiska pjäs har här bearbetats till en lättläst och spännande roman. Men den är inte förflyttad till modern tid. Samtidigt som läsarna i förenklad och anpassad form får stifta bekantskap med en av världens mest berömda skådespel, ...

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Henrik Ibsen war seiner Zeit weit voraus. Bis heute sind die starken Frauen seiner Stücke begehrte Schauspielrollen: Nora, die ihre Ehe verlässt, als sie begreift, dass ihr Leben einem goldenen Käfig gleicht; Hedda Gabler, die sich in ihrem bieder...

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One of most frequently performed modern plays richly displays genius with which Ibsen pioneered realistic prose drama.

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Peer Gynt är ett äventyrsdrama, skrivet med stor humor och mycket ironi på fyndig fri vers med ett djärvt folkligt språk. Peer Gynt är ett av Ibsens populäraste verk. Det kombinerar prosans äventyrsberättelse, poesins versspråk och dramats dialog ...

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With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. In Ghosts, Osvald Alvin...

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Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature of truth, the tension between freedom and responsibility,...

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Ibsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. This volume includes The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken - Ibsen's last four plays, written in hi...

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A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical ad...

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In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a...

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The four plays in this volume, written late in Ibsen's career as a dramatist, move away from his earlier preoccupation with people at odds with society to instead explore the inward struggle with their own thoughts, feelings and dreams. The Master...

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A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leadi...

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Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature of truth, the tension between freedom and responsibility, ...

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Ibsen's greatest late plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. This volume includes The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman and When We Dead Awaken - Ibsen's last four plays, written in his old age ...

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A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventu...

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Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range ...

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Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range ...

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Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or pa...

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Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Morrocan coast, the Sahara Desert, and the absurdi...

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Presents two works dramatizing the struggle between personal ideals and socie expectations.

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The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsens long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler). The tr...

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"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (G...

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The play was intended as a tragedy on the purposeless of life imposed on the women of his time, both by their upbringing and by the social conventions which limited their activities. When it was first produced it met with misunderstanding and abus...

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